Fishponds man Jaspal Khela, 45, jailed for kitchen knife attack on girlfriend
A FISHPONDS man who plunged a kitchen knife into his girlfriend's back has been jailed for five years.
Jaspal Khela, a 45-year-old with a history of domestic violence, was drunk when he stabbed Emily Spink, puncturing her lung, Bristol Crown Court heard. The court was told he had been serving a suspended jail term for an assault on former partner Sharon Bundy.
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Bristol Crown Court
Khela, of Fishponds Road, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause Ms Spink grievous bodily harm in November last year.
Judge Roderick Denyer QC told him: "You stabbed the woman with whom you were living at the time.
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"This was a serious stabbing, a stab to the back with a kitchen knife."
The judge ordered the destruction of the knife used and told Khela to pay a £120 victim surcharge.
Mary McCarthy, prosecuting, said Khela temporarily moved in with Ms Spink, who said his cannabis and alcohol use made him "manic".
The court heard that in November last year the pair had an argument, culminating in Khela throwing a glass of cider over Ms Spink's head and her throwing cider over him.
Miss McCarthy said: "She turned her back on him to face the fridge.
"She felt a hard punch to the right side of her back. She touched her back and she felt it was bleeding. She realised she had been stabbed."
Miss McCarthy said Khela had picked up a kitchen knife with a 20cm long blade to stab Ms Spink.
Miss McCarthy told the court: "She vomited, she shouted that she needed an ambulance and she tried to drag herself to the phone. She was unable to do so. It seemed a long time before he called an ambulance."
The judge heard how Khela made an emergency call and said his girlfriend had "made him mad" and he put a knife through her lung.
Ms Spink received five stitches to a wound, suffered an infection and was hospitalised for ten days.
When Khela was arrested he said he was guilty, that he had stabbed her and that she had "glassed" him. He made a no comment interview.
Farah Rashid, defending, said her client immediately admitted the stabbing, stayed at the scene and told police where the knife was.
She said: "He is full of remorse. He knows what he has done.
"He knows he is going to face a lengthy prison sentence."
Miss Rashid added: "It was wrong and clearly he accepts that.
"He is an educated man. He has unfortunately lost his way. He needs to leave the alcohol alone."
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by steveinavalon
Friday, March 15 2013, 2:36PM
“There was a very good programme on Radio 4 last night about how government has the power to remove British citizenship.
This animal looks like a good place to start and then move on to all the rest of the steady stream of people with overseas lineage that commit serious offences here.
I'd be quite happy to see this going back 3 generations and stuff their "Human Right". Maybe then we'd be less attractive as a destination and our benefits, housing schools, hospitals, etc. would be under less pressure?
(Cue bleeding heart liberals now of course)”
by bokkbokk
Friday, March 15 2013, 2:18PM
“Deport”
by BlueFace
Thursday, March 14 2013, 6:41PM
“@The victim.
The statistics may disagree with you,i do not know that to be a truth but if it is then I would hope we as a society have the nerve to look into it amd stop it.
Different peoples in GB with different cultures (multi cultural society) are in some ways different.Some people even speak a different language and we try our best to help these people.
Obviously anybody (whatever their culture) can commit crime,but I think it maybe the case (maybe) that certain'culture' with certain traits tend to commit certain crime.
If that is the case we (our multi cultural society) should do something to stop this problem.
Khelas crime may have have something to do with a person who really needed mental help.
I mean he is not well balanced,that's for sure.”
by Thevictim
Thursday, March 14 2013, 5:28PM
“@BlueFace I do not think your idea that cultural identity makes a person more likely to commit an offence holds up to rational scrutiny. A person can be capable of committing a criminal offencednotwithstanding where their parents came from.”
by BlueFace
Thursday, March 14 2013, 2:31PM
“@the victim
If Mr Khelas parents were not born in the UK,i also do not see him as a Brit.I see him as eg Indian-Brit.
Both are fine,but they may have quite different cultures,different up bringings with different friends and colleagues.It may be that one is more prone to knife attacks than the other.
If this is the case ,I would like some kind of education/ideas set up to help stop this (naturally for Brit/Brits too).
Maybe,i do not know the figures,if any even exist.
Anyway,thanks for joining in and I hope you are now fully recovered.”
by Thevictim
Thursday, March 14 2013, 2:18PM
“@BlueFace he's not an immigrant so that's not even an issue”
by Ciderhunter
Thursday, March 14 2013, 2:15PM
“By Thevictim.
For the record, he may be British in your eyes but he will never be British in mine.”
by BlueFace
Thursday, March 14 2013, 1:39PM
“If it is true and there is a higher percentage of violent crime againstr women by immagrants,i hope we as a society can educate the people involved.
Eg,it was great to see some Somalian women protesting against the female mutilation thing they have had to put up with.Well done girls for standing up against this ridiculous torture.
Stand up to em!”
by Richard34
Thursday, March 14 2013, 1:36PM
“@Marksy,
What I'm talking about is year of stories by the Post not knowing area's of Bristol. Up to a few year ago Fishponds had a terrible reputation because of crimes happening on Fishponds Road in Easton and deep in to Eastville. Perhaps this story is about a man who lives in Fishponds but possibly 95% of all the bad press taken place in Fishponds Road over the past 20 years actually took place nowhere near to Fishponds itself. Fishponds Road starts two miles from Fishponds itself and Stapleton Road starts a long way from Stapleton etc.”
by Thevictim
Thursday, March 14 2013, 1:33PM
“For the record he is a born and bred brit and it happened in Fishponds, not Easton. I should know as it was me he stabbed and he did not stab his ex partner.”